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Traces of the impact crater Chicxulub - Chicxulub impact crater - Excessive relief view of the Yucatan peninsula obtained from radar altimetric data acquired by the SRTM instrument aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2000. An arc of circle is visible to the north-west of the peninsula, marking the outer edge of the Chicxulub impact crater whose centre is located off the Mexican coast. This meteorite impact would have caused the disappearance of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This shaded relief image of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula show a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretatious - Tertiary Extinction, the event 65 million years ago that marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of life then on Earth. Most of the peninsula is visible here, along with the island of Cozumel off the east coast. The Yucatan is a plateau composed mostly of limestone and is an area of very low relief with elevations varying by less than a few hundred meters (about 500 feet.) In this computer - enhanced image the topography has been greatly exaggerated to highlight a semicircular trough, the darker green arcing line at the upper left corner of the peninsula. This trough is only about 3 to 5 meters (10 to 15 feet) deep and is about 5 km. wide (3 miles), so subtle that if you walked across it you probably would not notice it, and is a surface expression of the crater's outer boundary. Scientists believe the impact, which was centered just off the coast in the Caribbean, altered the subsurface rocks such that the overlying limestone sediments, which formed later and erode very easily, would preferentially erode on the vicinity of the crater rim. This formed the trough as well as numerous sinkholes (called cenotes) which are visible as small circular depressions. Two visualization methods were combined to produce the image: shading a
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Traces of the impact crater Chicxulub - Chicxulub impact crater - Excessive relief view of the Yucatan peninsula obtained from radar altimetric data acquired by the SRTM instrument aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2000. An arc of circle is visible to the north-west of the peninsula, marking the outer edge of the Chicxulub impact crater whose centre is located off the Mexican coast. This meteorite impact would have caused the disappearance of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This shaded relief image of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula show a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretatious - Tertiary Extinction, the event 65 million years ago that marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of life then on Earth. Most of the peninsula is visible here, along with the island of Cozumel off the east coast. The Yucatan is a plateau composed mostly of limestone and is an area of very low relief with elevations varying by less than a few hundred meters (about 500 feet.) In this computer - enhanced image the topography has been greatly exaggerated to highlight a semicircular trough, the darker green arcing line at the upper left corner of the peninsula. This trough is only about 3 to 5 meters (10 to 15 feet) deep and is about 5 km. wide (3 miles), so subtle that if you walked across it you probably would not notice it, and is a surface expression of the crater's outer boundary. Scientists believe the impact, which was centered just off the coast in the Caribbean, altered the subsurface rocks such that the overlying limestone sediments, which formed later and erode very easily, would preferentially erode on the vicinity of the crater rim. This formed the trough as well as numerous sinkholes (called cenotes) which are visible as small circular depressions. Two visualization methods were combined to produce the image: shading a

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